From the recording Come a Reckoning
Lyrics
Tell me you want me
I let it haunt me like a holy ghost
Cry for the heartless
Lie in the darkness, artless as a rose
While I’m awake, in fever I’m shaking
For all the sorrows that have brought me low
But when I’m sleeping I can go deep in
Down to the water, child, I will go
Midnight motion on a raging sea
Ride that ocean, let it carry me
Hallelujah, row the boat ashore
Rock my soul, shake me to the core
Shake me to the core
Tell me you need me
I let it bleed me like a rolling stone
Lay me down easy
Wayward you leave me grieving all alone
Follow a new star to where the blues are
Fading to blackness with the dying day
Pilot my steamship out of its dream slip
Baby now watch me while I sail away
Midnight motion on a raging sea
Ride that ocean, let it carry me
Hallelujah, row the boat ashore
Rock my soul and I will praise the Lord
I will praise the Lord
Have mercy on a firstborn daughter
Trying not to lose her mind
What’s got me ain’t a thirst for water
Whiskey, or the sweetest wine
I need the love divine
Midnight motion on a raging sea
Ride that ocean, let it carry me
Hallelujah, row the boat ashore
Rock my soul, shake me to the core
Shake me to the core